I woke up yesterday to the news that a cracked version of UBot Studio was doing rounds on various forums. So obviously, I went around to check those threads and see what the whole deal was. Sure as hell, there was one cracked version doing rounds and there was one common theme to all —

This software doesn’t work. It is crap. When I try to compile or use captcha, it crashes or fails to do anything.

Yeah sherlock, the reason why it is not working is because a large part of our software interaction with our Server and that requires proper license verification. It works flawlessly for over 200 current customers.

UBot Studio requires server side interaction for compiling the bots and a few other important aspects required to make the software work perfectly — if the proper license was in place, you would not be having all these issues.

Eight people bought a license yesterday directly because of the nulled version threads and surprisingly the software started working flawlessly. Few of them even mentioned that in the warez threads and our sales increased further.

Plus anyway, having a proper license will give you access to technical support, upcoming UBot Underground, 4-5 updates a week and proper bug-free experience (as then it can properly interact with our servers).

Anyway, as far as we are concerned the cracked version can’t work at third of its strength — it can be treated as a lite version to play around with. Just that it is full of bugs and can’t do what a proper version can.

We have decided not to be dicks in these threads. We are not a big corporation like Microsoft but rather a small software company — 4 people right now in US, UK, Sweden and India. We work at fixing bugs, adding new features, providing customer support and managing daily business operations.

We need to focus on what matters more than fighting piracy of a software which doesn’t even have our most powerful features. While we do have a system in place to turn the lid on the pirated version and track the IPs of those using it but right now we have bigger priorities than coding the control system for that.

People who need to make some real use of the most powerful features of UBot Studio will need a license that properly interacts with our server. If you are a business, you can take this purchase as a tax write-off.

We work make software that makes our customers money. Maybe we deserve to be supported by buying a license so that we can continue to make UBot Studio even more awesome.

So, Why Should You Buy UBot Studio?

– A Bug-Free, Fully Functional Software. A properly licensed version of UBot Studio does not have any of the bugs or errors which people are facing in the nulled version. Plus, we are extremely proactive at fixing any issues that arise in our legal version.

– Full Access to UBot Studio Updates. We have just released UBot Studio 3.1 with more kick-ass features. We also keep releasing Bug Fixes and Enhancements regularly. With a proper license, you will always have access to these updates.

– No Viruses, Trojans or Keyloggers. Cracked versions usually have viruses or trojans in them. Can you trust your business or financial information to a hacker? Legal license has absolutely no viruses or trojans or any other malware in it.

– UBot Underground. We are working on releasing UBot Underground in Beta within a week or so. This will make your UBot Studio experience a lot more powerful and give you access to resources / pre-made bots which you will not have without a proper license.

– Warm Fuzzy Feeling. Of supporting the people who create software that helps you make money and grow your business to an unprecedented levels by automating the routine tasks / daily operations.

– Technical Support. We are provide support on forums and via email. You have to be properly licensed to ask for support. We have a lot of priorities, and helping the pirates is certainly not one of them. And trust me, due to the nature of software, you will need support or have to get the bug-fixes regularly.

Slave Morality vs Master Morality. This was, in my opinion, one of the most fascinating concepts that the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche gave us. Nietzsche was fascinated by the moral ideals of the different classes in ancient Greece.

What he noticed was that the slave class would talk about morality in terms of what we shouldn’t do: don’t steal, don’t kill, etc. To them, keeping themselves chaste and pure was the highest goal in being a good and moral person.

The aristocracy, on the other hand, would talk about morality in terms of achieving greatness, and contributing greatness to the world. Yes, surely Aristotle would see himself as a highly moral person for having contributed such profound works to the ages, and for being remembered thousands of years later.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I wholeheartedly agree that we should abstain from killing each other and all that, but when I look at the overall course of my day, I can confidently assert that I spend much more time in trying to achieve greatness than I do trying to keep myself from having lots of sex with hot women. I’m sure that many of those reading this will agree with me in that respect. The only thing troubling with this notion is that it also seems to imply something quite insidious.

In ancient Greece, you would be hard pressed to read about anyone who wasn’t born an aristocrat. Every philosopher, every mathematician, every politician was born an aristocrat and died an aristocrat. The aristocracy of ancient Greece existed on the backs of the slave class, and it was because of the hard work of the slaves that they had the time and resources to achieve such greatness in the fields of philosophy, math, politics, medicine, and so on.

Furthermore, when you look into all of the great civilizations throughout history, you will be hard pressed to find one that became great without depending on slavery, or at the very least a greatly oppressed lower class. Slavery is America’s original sin, and such is true of many great countries.

Even today, the biggest and most successful companies rely on the globalization of labor, which, while not technically slavery, allows them to be very productive without having to spend too much out of pocket. I would be willing to bet, in fact, that in many cases sweatshop labor is much cheaper than slave labor, since companies don’t have to pay for a sweatshop laborer’s food and housing.

For me at least, this presents quite a moral dilemma. Surely, achieving greatness means controlling high productivity with low costs. But how can we do this without trampling on anyone? I thusly propose Automation Morality.

The state of current technology has become such that we can now delegate more and more complex tasks to machines – that is, to automated pieces of hardware and software. More fantastically, a machine can do the job of a human more efficiently and effectively. Merely by having the birthright of being born into the era in which we live, we can now achieve greatness to levels not even imaginable by the men of ancient Greece by being a master, not of slaves, but of automata.

We can put massive amounts of workload and productivity on the shoulders of our robot friends without one concern for the morality of them. I’ve created chatbots that could talk to people for hours without giving away their synthetic identity. I’ve seen robots that could pick up on facial expressions of humans and mirror their own emotion back at them. Not one of these machines could feel bad, or used, or abused. Even if they could, the feeling would be nothing more than a number stored in a variable, which could easily be edited by the automaton’s programmer.

Perhaps we are on the cusp of a new economy, in which those of us who push every day to achieve greatness can do so easier than ever before, and at the same time sip wine with those who might, in a different time, be members of the slave class, who themselves may now have the same opportunity to reach farther than was ever thought possible.

Are you a UBot Affiliate? We have just released two new kick-ass features that we are really excited about!

1. Coupon Tracking. We are now able to link an affiliate ID to a coupon. So if your customers use a coupon we gave to you, you will get paid for the sale! If you already have your coupon, please contact us to get it linked to your account.

If you want us to generate a new coupon for you, please contact me and I will be more than glad to do so.

2. Compiler Linking. Now your affiliate ID can be linked to UBot Studio branding in the compiled bots. If you are giving out compiled bots on your blogs or in other marketing campaigns, your bots can have your affiliate links embedded into those bots. Contact us if you want to get your compiler account linked with your affiliate ID.

Contact us [ ubot @ ideafusion.co.uk ] if you want us to setup any of these on your account.

chihpih on DigitalPoint AKA DJKomputer AKA the IT Genius at a large Investment Bank in New York posted this unsolicited review in a forum thread.

I spent some time with UBot today and watched a tutorial on how to create a Google Keyword tool scrapper.

All I can say is wow! This has to be the best webmaster software I have ever seen in my 13+ years of Internet experience.

The software will take a lot of time to fully understand and you must be prepared to watch a few demo videos to get the grasp of things. You should have a concept of programming or at least be able to learn from the demos.

Purchase of the software also gives you access to UBot forums where you can ask questions and get help if you get stuck at some point of creating your own bot.

I will watch more videos and try creating a scrapper that feeds my own needs and work on other bots in the future.

Rating 11/10 – forget hours doing repetitive things or trying to outsource some simple jobs, make any kind of bot you want, well worth the money, requires some programming / logic understanding

UBot does have a small learning curve. It is not a magic solution that will do everything “out of box”. So when you buy it, you have to be willing to spend some time learning it using the extensive resources — it is easy. Also, there is always the support forum to help you.

But I say it is absolutely worth it to put in that small effort into learning UBot — imagine the thousands of dollars that you will save on buying other software or hiring programmers.

Learn more about UBot Studio at UBotStudio.com, grab a copy and start botting.

At UBot we are big fans of WFReview Plugin and use it personally for our own ventures. However, the most critical aspect of success with WFReview is to have data you can use — and a lot of it. The most common solutions? Either use data feeds from merchants or write scraper scripts.

If there is one thing I have learned it is that writing regular expressions to scrape content from a site are a ‘pain in the you know what’. I have always ended up spending hours and hours creating scripts to scrape data from sites or have always ended up hiring someone to do it for me.

However, hiring people to get stuff done for you can become very expensive, very fast. Learning to code yourself is another option which is not the easiest or the quickest path, as I can tell from my own experience. And even if you already know how to program, the hours you will have to spend programming scraper scripts can be better used on marketing your sites or having fun.